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Bottoms Up: Why I’m A Bratty Bossy Bitch

Submitting is a weird dichotomy of knowing exactly what you want but putting someone else in control of giving it to you.

Ari June 28, 2016 9 Comments
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View From The Top: Polka Dots, Packing, and Protocol

We started to turn the top/bottom dynamics in our sex life into 24/7 dominance/submission. It was highly negotiated, mutually consensual, and extremely hot.

Sinclair Sexsmith June 21, 2016 10 Comments
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So You Want to Fuck an Able-Bodied Person

For the disabled among us, meet-cutes and the events that follow aren’t so simple to orchestrate. Need a refresher on the rules of engagement? There’s no need to go it alone!

Carrie June 17, 2016 34 Comments
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Bottoms Up: My Time In The Dungeon

“I was on my ninth cigarette when the dom about to give me the most affirming experience I’d had as a sub came to stand next to me.”

Ari June 14, 2016 9 Comments
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View From The Top: Daddy

I wanted to hear her say it again. I wanted her to say it while we fucked, while I was inside her, while she kissed me, while she came. It felt right, it felt extraordinary, it felt entirely new.

Sinclair Sexsmith June 7, 2016 175 Comments
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You Need Help: Issues With Strap-On Size

What do you do when your girlfriend has a small vaginal opening and wants to have penetrative sex?

Ari June 2, 2016 16 Comments
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View From The Top: Theory Is Foreplay, Right?

I wanted her. I dreamed about her, daydreamed about her, wrote love notes to her all day long, wrote erotica about our sex life. We weren’t together all that long, but she taught me so much about dominance.

Sinclair Sexsmith May 24, 2016 15 Comments
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Bottoms Up: BDSM and Abuse

It was summer and I was lonely and she was kinky and the sex was good and I live in a small town. And she was perfect, but she wasn’t.

Ari May 17, 2016 31 Comments
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View From The Top: Canes Are Sticks!

I had always put boundaries on my sadism — until I started seeing impact toys everywhere.

Sinclair Sexsmith May 10, 2016 13 Comments
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Bottoms Up: Bottoming and Butt Sex

I want to submit — to the right person. And the right person — with whom I have a deep level of trust, with whom I can relax — will fuck me in the ass.

Ari May 3, 2016 15 Comments
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10 Tips For Texting About Sex (and Having the Kind You Want)

“You will have the best sex possible when you abandon yourself to pleasure.” The fastest way to find that feeling of abandon? Telling someone what to do to get you there.

Lynsey April 26, 2016 7 Comments
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View From The Top: It’s Like 10,000 Femme Tops When All You Need Is A Bottom

Before you can find someone who wants what you want, you have to say no to everyone who doesn’t.

Sinclair Sexsmith April 26, 2016 134 Comments
Sex

Bottoms Up: I Am My Best Sex

Being single, solo submission, masturbation, and how you can be your own best and favorite top.

Ari April 19, 2016 14 Comments
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View From The Top: Don’t Come Until I Say You Can

Tease and denial is a classic flirtation. Orgasm control is just one step further.

Sinclair Sexsmith April 12, 2016 12 Comments
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Bottoms Up: Kinky Safer Sex As A Single Sub

I got my first STI as a newly single sub with no idea how to practice kinky safer sex. Turns out safer sex is everyone’s responsibility.

Ari April 5, 2016 22 Comments
Sex

View From The Top: Dividing Acts and Power

“What if the person who is strapped-on is tied to a bed, blindfolded and ridden, not allowed to come? Who is really in charge then?”

Sinclair Sexsmith March 29, 2016 20 Comments
Sex

Bottoms Up: She Wants Me To Send Nudes But I Think She’s a Fuckboi

Nude selfies are how I first learned to see myself as a sexual being, and now they also let me determine how others see me — especially within kinky power dynamic relationships.

Ari March 22, 2016 21 Comments
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You Need Help: Are You Asexual or Was Having Sex With Dudes Just the Worst?

“I was bred as a Southern Baptist, which gave me plenty of reasons not to let a guy touch my boobs. For example, it would break Jesus’ heart. And also I would go to hell.”

Heather Hogan March 22, 2016 69 Comments
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View From The Top: How I Went From Top To Dominant

I wanted her to crawl over to the toy box and fetch the cane, then bring it back to me in her mouth. I wanted to tell her what to do. And I wanted it to be for my direct pleasure.

Sinclair Sexsmith March 15, 2016 22 Comments
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You Need Help: Do I Disclose That I Haven’t Had Sex In a While?

“How do I own up to this as if it’s the most normal thing for me to have done?” Well guess what — not having sex IS a normal thing! I have the great pleasure today of telling you that you’re normal.

A.E. Osworth March 9, 2016 47 Comments
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